Slightly strange ZFS problem on a FreeBSD 7.3 box recently – booted up to find the ZPOOL degraded complaining about an unavailable drive – but yet still reading and writing to it. The error message was; One or more devices could not be used because the label is missing or invalid. Sufficient replicas exist… Read more »
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Why I am not using FreeNAS 8 just yet
Recently the drive containing the operating system for my home NAS server died (thats 2 drives in 2 months !) and so I thought it was a good opportunity to upgrade to the new (few months old) FreeNAS v8 – it lasted less than 24 hours because its just not release ready in my opinion…. Read more »
Replacing drives in ZFS zpool
I recently suffered a failure of one drive in a mirrored pair attached to a ZFS zpool and have had to replace it, I decided to take this oppurtunity to replace the whole mirror to increase the size available. The restrictions being here that there were no spares running and no free SATA ports in… Read more »
ZFS – Adding storage to a pool. No downtime!
I have a computer acting as a NAS server which was running out of disk space in the main pool – this is when the fantastic features of ZFS (a Sun designed file system) came in. Basically with ZFS you create virtual devices from physical devices and assign them to a pool which is then… Read more »
